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not tags related but i want to speak about this officially the number of murdered civilians in gaza has hit 10000. i would like to repeat. 10000 inoccent indivisuals, each with families, loved ones and all have been murdered in less than 30 days in isreal.

i will put it another way

the number of murdered civilians in gaza has officially passed the number of people murdered on october the 7th, in 9/11, in pearl harbor and isrealy soldiers in the yom kapur war

COMBINED

and i say officially because, and i like being optimistic and all, but look me straight in the eyes and tell me any less than 90% of the 2000+ people buried under the ruble are getting rescued in these conditions

@staff for the love of fucking anything at this point stop censoring the tags. i know your CEO is a zionist piece of shit and the person who reads this(if any) doesn't have control over this. but please try anything. go on strike, file complaints, anything please

So… @thegunnsara AGNST BE UPON YEE!!! Dumbass me forgot that the secure sharing box don’t save on the browser page, BUT DAMN MY COMPULSIVE SAVIGN WORKED OUT

Have this totally fun and light hearted drawing xoxo me

[ “I’m sorry ‘D, you probably hate this, but I don’t know how to calm you down anymore.” ]

Leo turned out pretty strong, huh? Oops. Anatomy and physics told me bye

Light practice I did 2 months-ish ago

Uhhhh magnum opus part 2? I guess? Never thought I'd actively enjoy backgrounds but here we are!

How to make your writing sound less stiff

Just a few suggestions. You shouldn’t have to compromise your writing style and voice with any of these, and some situations and scenes might demand some stiff or jerky writing to better convey emotion and immersion. I am not the first to come up with these, just circulating them again.

1. Vary sentence structure.

This is an example paragraph. You might see this generated from AI. I can’t help but read this in a robotic voice. It’s very flat and undynamic. No matter what the words are, it will be boring. It’s boring because you don’t think in stiff sentences. Comedians don’t tell jokes in stiff sentences. We don’t tell campfire stories in stiff sentences. These often lack flow between points, too.

So funnily enough, I had to sit through 87k words of a “romance” written just like this. It was stiff, janky, and very unpoetic. Which is fine, the author didn’t tell me it was erotica. It just felt like an old lady narrator, like Old Rose from Titanic telling the audience decades after the fact instead of living it right in the moment. It was in first person pov, too, which just made it worse. To be able to write something so explicit and yet so un-titillating was a talent. Like, beginner fanfic smut writers at least do it with enthusiasm.

2. Vary dialogue tag placement

You got three options, pre-, mid-, and post-tags.

Leader said, “this is a pre-dialogue tag.”

“This,” Lancer said, “is a mid-dialogue tag.”

“This is a post-dialogue tag,” Heart said.

Pre and Post have about the same effect but mid-tags do a lot of heavy lifting.

They help break up long paragraphs of dialogue that are jank to look at

They give you pauses for ~dramatic effect~

They prompt you to provide some other action, introspection, or scene descriptor with the tag. *don't forget that if you're continuing the sentence as if the tag wasn't there, not to capitalize the first word after the tag. Capitalize if the tag breaks up two complete sentences, not if it interrupts a single sentence.

It also looks better along the lefthand margin when you don’t start every paragraph with either the same character name, the same pronouns, or the same “ as it reads more natural and organic.

3. When the scene demands, get dynamic

General rule of thumb is that action scenes demand quick exchanges, short paragraphs, and very lean descriptors. Action scenes are where you put your juicy verbs to use and cut as many adverbs as you can. But regardless of if you’re in first person, second person, or third person limited, you can let the mood of the narrator bleed out into their narration.

Like, in horror, you can use a lot of onomatopoeia.

Drip Drip Drip

Or let the narration become jerky and unfocused and less strict in punctuation and maybe even a couple run-on sentences as your character struggles to think or catch their breath and is getting very overwhelmed.

You can toss out some grammar rules, too and get more poetic.

Warm breath tickles the back of her neck. It rattles, a quiet, soggy, rasp. She shivers. If she doesn’t look, it’s not there. If she doesn’t look, it’s not there. Sweat beads at her temple. Her heart thunders in her chest. Ba-bump-ba-bump-ba-bump-ba- It moves on, leaving a void of cold behind. She uncurls her fists, fingers achy and palms stinging from her nails. It’s gone.

4. Remember to balance dialogue, monologue, introspection, action, and descriptors.

The amount of times I have been faced with giant blocks of dialogue with zero tags, zero emotions, just speech on a page like they’re notecards to be read on a stage is higher than I expected. Don’t forget that though you may know exactly how your dialogue sounds in your head, your readers don’t. They need dialogue tags to pick up on things like tone, specifically for sarcasm and sincerity, whether a character is joking or hurt or happy.

If you’ve written a block of text (usually exposition or backstory stuff) that’s longer than 50 words, figure out a way to trim it. No matter what, break it up into multiple sections and fill in those breaks with important narrative that reflects the narrator’s feelings on what they’re saying and whoever they’re speaking to’s reaction to the words being said. Otherwise it’s meaningless.

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Hope this helps anyone struggling! Now get writing.

before I forget it here, the birthday gift for my wife,,, Junior and Leo (AGAIN) but I was like a crazy drawing this for 6 days to give it to her on time This song is so them, I also thought a lot about the first half of the song and Leo's vision of Junior, bc WHO notices when the years passed but when the end is near? How was he supposed to say goodbye to the little hope of the resistance? For how long did he consider time travel thing? God I hate them sm But while I watch her grow My poor heart grows a hole Oh, Lord, say (say it ain't so) it ain't so Can't you please make an exception? I've got good intentions I just crave protection for my ball of perfection

But like imagine he froze tho…

as promised for letting Life Mission and Bloodbath tie in the @tmntaucompetition, here's a part of the trailer as part 1 :3c (part 2 of the bois' dancewear will be released soon) been keeping this secret for months now ueueue

now, i'm not expecting much for the finals but... if Life Mission (and Bloodbath) somehow wins or ties... i will release the full trailer by the end of the competition-

if not, you will still get it, regardless!!! just that the LM update will be up first rather than the trailer :D (and will probably be stuck in production hell for a bit because i need motivation to finish it hhhh)

regardless, ik i haven't been participating much on competition shenanigans but it's been so fun! mad respect to all the AUs that made it into the poll! didn't expect that LM would be the last man standing in allies list but thank you so so soooooooooo much for the outpouring love and support for LM, even though i've been quiet about it for a couple of months 💖 you guys are the best and thank you for being patient. my love for writing this story isn't gone. it's only beginning and i have all of you to thank for it~

don't worry, gamers... your Life Mission will be back sooner than you think-